Children Picture Books from China 展览视觉 by Blend Design

Children Picture Books from China 展览视觉 by Blend Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 平面、插画与视觉传达设计 Competition Category.

铜平面· 2020

Children Picture Books from China 展览视觉

by Blend Design

Client: Confucius Institute Headquarters

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Children Picture Books from China 展览视觉

孔子学院总部组织策划的“中国孩子的书香世界”儿童绘本专题展在法兰克福书展儿童馆对公众展示。专家小组从197本不同风格的绘本中选择了梁培龙《红蜻蜓绿蜻蜓》的水墨画为整体展览视觉设计风格。后经过设计师从梁老师的画作中提取出水墨点的元素，并加强了红色和黄色的饱和度，与水墨画搭配使用。新视觉风格既符合展览需求又兼具东方意味，将独特的中国绘本之美呈现在了国际的舞台上。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Children Picture Books from China 展览视觉是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Children Picture Books from China 展览视觉将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Children Picture Books from China 展览视觉出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: October 2016 the Chinese children's book exhibition "children picture books from China" organized by Confucius institute headquarters was made their full debut at children's hall of the Frankfurt book fair. "Children picture books from China" made a selection of the 197 original works from 1000 kinds of picture books of 500 Chinese publishers to display. Through text and paintings by Chinese writers and illustrators, unique Chinese picture beauty appears on the international stage.
Dimensions & Packaging: Because the composition of ink points is relatively free, the picture is suitable for various sizes and can be flexibly applied in 2D plane and 3D space.
Tags: Children's picture book exhibition, children's interest, Chinese ink painting, oriental charm
Production Technology: This scheme needs to present the details of Chinese ink painting, so in the printing and exhibition of ink-jet painting, there is a high demand for production and paper, and it needs to reflect the level of ink absorption and natural ink-jet. Printing materials, including LCD screen background color, need to show pure ivory white to reflect the gentle oriental charm and detail characteristics of the design. The little Notbook uses the red rope binding way to interpret the traditional Chinese color.
Design Challenge: Traditional Chinese ink paintings as visual image for the book exhibition are too elegant. Visual design for exhibition should have more strong colors, symbols or graphics to attract attention of the audiences. In order to solve this problem, designers picked up the ink points from paintings of Mr. Liang as the abstract elements, and strengthened the red and yellow saturation, and used with ink painting together.
Research: Before making the vision and exhibition structure plan, it is necessary to analyze the space location, scale, internal and external visiting lines of the booth reasonably, to study people's feeling of exhibition vision from different angles and positions, and to consider the structure and color of adjacent booths.
Inspiration: The activity attribute should be not only international, but also national, and be full of children's interest. The experts selected the ink painting of red & green dragonfly from different style picture books and gave the overall style. The illustrations are elegant in color, beautiful in artistic conception and unique in oriental flavor. The picture with innocence children is full of their longing for good things and future life. The style and the theme are well matched.
Project Duration: The project started in June 2016 in Beijing China and finished in October 2016 in Frankfurt Germany. Subsequently, Confucius Institutes and other partners around the world successively presented this book collection and related visual design.
Operation Flow: The main difficulty of this event design is how to plan the graphic and exhibition content information reasonably in the exhibition space. After many times of coordination with the German exhibition builder, the designer adjusted the proportion, scale, layout and detail processing of the exhibition stand, and finally achieved a good cooperation effect.
Patents: Design @ Blend Design
Illustration@ Peilong Liang
Copyright @ Confucius Institute Headquarters
Team Members: Concept and Planning: Yonghong Ma
Art Director: Fang Ge
Illustration: Peilong Liang
Image Credits: Main Image: (Design) Blend Design, 2016
Image#1: (Design) Blend Design, 2016; (Illustration) Peilong Liang, 2010
Image#2: (Design) Blend Design, 2016; (Illustration) Peilong Liang, 2010
Image#3: (Design) Blend Design, 2016; (Illustration) Peilong Liang, 2010
Image#4: (Photography) Confucius Institute Headquarters, 2016